Safety Belt Use and the Switch to Primary Enforcement, 1991–2003

Safety belt use, ejection and entrapment.

One in every five occupants thrown from a car receives fatal injuries. A motorist who uses a safety belt, in all probability, will not be thrown from the car during a crash. The rate of fatal injury for ejected occupants was found to be 40 times the rate for occupants not thrown from their cars, as determined from national accident sampling data. These data refute the popular notion that "being...

on the relationship between self- regulated learning strategies use and willingness to communicate in the context of writing

این تحقیق به منظور بررسی رابطه بین میزان استراتژیهای خود-تنظیم شده یادگیری و تمایل به ایجاد ارتباط دانشجویان زبان انگلیسی انجام شده است.علاوه بر این،روابط و کنش های موجود بین ریزسنجه های استراتژیهای خود-تنظیم شده یادگُیری ، مهارت نگارش و تمایل به برقراری ارتباط و همچنین تاٍثیرجنسیت دانشجویان زبان انگلیسی در استراتژیهای خود-تنظیم شده یادگیری و تمایل به برقراری ارتباط آنها مورد بررسی قرار گرفته شد.

Use of seat belt and enforcement of seat belt laws in Pakistan.

OBJECTIVES Traffic crashes are a leading cause of deaths and injuries in Pakistan. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that approximately 30,131 people die in road crashes annually on Pakistani roads (WHO 2013). The use of seat belts can be effective in reducing road crash fatalities in Pakistan but under existing seat belt laws, seat belt use is mandatory only for drivers and is limi...

A statewide intervention to increase safety belt use: adding to the impact of a belt use law.

Increased safety-belt use--United States, 1991.

From 1980 to 1990, safety-belt use among passenger-vehicle drivers in the United States increased from 11% to 49%; in 1990, use of safety belts prevented approximately 4800 deaths and 120,000 serious injuries among front-seat occupants (1). The increased use of safety belts from 1984 through 1990 was associated primarily with the enactment of state laws (Figure 1). In recent years, however, the...